Gas decomposing apparatus

Abstract

A gas cracking apparatus adapted to simultaneously efficiently discharge gas heavier than air and gas lighter than air resulting from assimilations of malodorous gas and greenhouse gas. The main frame of the gas cracking apparatus includes a closed metallic circular tube or angular tube. This tube is provided at its superior portion with a superior vent and provided at its inferior portion with an inferior vent, and the tube is further provided with a gas inlet disposed between the superior vent and the inferior vent.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. A gas decomposition apparatus using bacteria selecting and decomposing a specific gas component, which apparatus comprises:
 a tubular gas decomposition apparatus body horizontally extending and including a gas introduction port which is provided therein at a middle location between end portions of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body, and from which a gas to be subjected to a decomposition processing, containing said specific gas component, is introduced into an interior of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body, upper exhaust ports which are provided therein at top locations of the respective end portions of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body, and lower exhaust ports which are provided therein at bottom locations of the respective end portions of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body; 
 a first bacteria bed material layer, containing bacteria selecting and decomposing said specific gas component, received in the interior of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body between said gas introduction port and one of the end portions of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body; and 
 a second bacteria bed material layer, containing bacteria selecting and decomposing said specific gas component, received in the interior of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body between said as introduction port and the other end portion of said tubular as decomposition apparatus body. 
 
     
     
       2. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein said specific gas component is either a greenhouse gas or a stink gas. 
     
     
       3. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein said gas introduction port includes a fan so that the introduction of the gas to be subjected to the decomposition processing into the interior of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body is able to be positively carried out. 
     
     
       4. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein each of said upper exhaust ports and said exhaust ports includes a fan so that the introduction of the gas to be subjected to the decomposition processing into the interior of said tubular as decomposition apparatus body is able to be positively carried out. 
     
     
       5. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein each of said first and second bacteria bed material layers is composed of a plurality of bacteria bed material layer units which are arranged in such a manner that a number of said bacteria bed material layer units is able to be regulated in each of said first and second bacteria bed material layers. 
     
     
       6. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body comprises a plurality of dividable segments which are connected to each other, and said bacteria bed material layer is received as a detachable unit in an interior of said gas decomposition apparatus body. 
     
     
       7. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein said gas introduction port includes a backward-flow prevention device for preventing a backward-flow of the gas to be subjected to the decomposition processing from said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body to said gas introduction port. 
     
     
       8. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 7 , wherein said backward-flow prevention device includes a tank, an upper section of which is in communication with said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body, and a lower section of which is charged with a liquid, and wherein a porous gas ejector is included in the lower section of said tank, which is fed the gas to be subjected to the decomposition processing. 
     
     
       9. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 7 , wherein said backward-flow prevention device is a check valve which is provided in said gas introduction port, and which is opened in only a direction from an upstream side of the gas to be subjected to the decomposition processing toward a downstream side thereof. 
     
     
       10. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein a sprinkler is provided in the upper section of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body, and is connected to either a tank, in which a liquid containing photosynthetic bacteria and/or other bacteria and so forth is held, or a water pipe for feeding a water. 
     
     
       11. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein at least one light source is provided in said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body so that both of said first and second bacteria bed material layers are illuminated with said light source. 
     
     
       12. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein a plurality of light sources are provided in said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body, so that both of said first and second bacteria bed material layers are entirely illuminated with said light sources in said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body. 
     
     
       13. A gas decomposition apparatus using bacteria selecting and decomposing a specific gas component, which apparatus comprises:
 a tubular gas decomposition apparatus body vertically extending and including a gas introduction port which is provided therein at a lower location of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body, and from which a as to be subjected to a decomposition processing, containing said specific gas component, is introduced into an interior of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body, an upper exhaust port which is provided therein at an upper location of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body, and a lower exhaust port which is provided therein at a lower location of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body; 
 a partition provided in a lower interior section of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body so as to divide it into a first chamber, which is in communication with said gas introduction port, and a second chamber, which is in communication with said lower exhaust port; and 
 a bacteria bed material layer, containing bacteria selecting and decomposing said specific gas component, received in the interior of said tubular gas decomposition apparatus body, so that an upper opening of said first chamber is plugged with said bacteria bed material layer whereby the gas to be subjected to the decomposition processing is able to pass through said bacteria bed material layer. 
 
     
     
       14. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 13 , wherein said bacteria for eliminating a greenhouse gas or decomposing a stink gas comprises photosynthetic bacteria. 
     
     
       15. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 13 , wherein said bacteria for eliminating a greenhouse gas or decomposing a stink gas comprises chemoautotrophic bacteria. 
     
     
       16. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 13 , wherein said bacteria for eliminating a greenhouse gas or decomposing a stink gas comprises mixed-cultured bacteria containing photosynthetic bacteria, chemo-mixotrophic bacteria and chemoautotorophic bacteria. 
     
     
       17. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 16 , wherein said bacteria bed material layer contains a nutrition substance, and further contains lactic acid bacteria. 
     
     
       18. The gas decomposition apparatus as set forth in  claim 16 , wherein said lactic acid bacteria comprises one or more kinds of lactic acid bacteria selected from the group comprising  lactobacillus acidophilus, lactobacillus plantarum, lactobacillus brevis, lactobacillus salivarius, lactobacillus pentose, lactobacillus reuteri , and  lactobacillus casei.